Indigo takes place in a subtly displaced and imaginary world, where the characters in the Tempest take life and form as players on a Caribbean colonial stage - and their descendants re-engage with its legacy four hundred years on. Warner shifts from fairy tale to poetry; politics to romance. Indigo mixes the dream world with the much less comfortable realities of slavery, genocide and modern day racism and commercial oppression in the newly independent Caribbean islands. Fantasy and narrative can shape and inform our understanding of our world, and Warner does that brilliantly here with her intricate plotting, sense of action, and her mix of poetry and humour with realism.

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